The Colas c21.28

c21.28

About fifteen years after this reconquest and settlement of the southern country there seems to have been another revolt in which Vēṇāḍ took the lead. This fact is to be inferred from the considerable number of inscriptions which describe the services of Naralōkavīra, the earliest date occurring in these inscriptions being the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Kulōttunga.⁶³ The interval between the close of the first Pāṇḍyan war of the reign and the first mention of Naralōkavīra in its inscriptions, and the frequent mention of Kālingarāya, one of the titles of Naralōkavīra, in the inscriptions of Jaṭāvarman Śrīvallabha, render it likely that the southern campaign in which this commander distinguished himself, was different from the war in the early years of the reign.⁶⁴ The enemies dealt with and the places which formed the centres of conflict were naturally more or less the same as in the earlier war; the result was also the same.